RSSFBI Offers $25,000 for Lost Hard Drive
By the Betanews Staff | Published February 22, 2007, 1:08 PM
The Birmingham, Alabama Veterans Administration Medical Center said this week it is seeking the return of an external Iomega hard drive containing personal information on at least a half-million people. The Center has brought in the FBI to help investigate and is offering a $25,000 reward.
The drive was reported missing by an employee who had used it to backup medical records. Although the sensitive data on the drive has not surfaced elsewhere, recent cases of identity theft have prompted the FBI to get involved in a number of similar stolen hard drive cases. A bill recently introduced in the U.S. Senate would hold IT managers responsible for such privacy breaches.
Check out this article on the subject: http://www.al.com/birmin...39972970.xml&coll=2
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|Can't be much on it for only 25 grand reward.
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|That makes the value of each persons' information $0.05 (5 cents) each. Doesn't really say much for the value of each persons information, eh?
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|Now that's good markup on a hard drive.
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|It's on E-bay.
Man, I hope they don't out bid me on this one.
I'm sure there's a lot of porn on there:-)LOL
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|so the fbi is offering a quarter of their salary for us to do their job for them?
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|i wonder if the FBI has tried looking on Craigslist
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|New rule: Take away all the laptops in the Bush administration. These guys steal one per day,... er, lose one a day. There's only one reason you're "losing" a laptop: you're selling it to the enemy. And where are you that you're leaving one laying around?
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|I don't think it's politically correct to make fun of retards.
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|As I have said before, this has nothing to do with politics. How does the party of ELECTED officials have any effect on the fact that UNELECTED beurocrats keep loosing data storage devices. Again, why do all of these people to have this type of equipment. I am really begining to think that a return of the mainframe/terminal layout needs to occur.
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|Too true - the Democrats can't help being slow, it's part of the requirement for being a party member. :)
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|just like every republican's foreign policy must be Hobbesian in nature?
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|Somehow I knew you couldn't resist making an idiot of yourself Filmore.
psst...the democrats lose stuff to.
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|Yea, only a retard would want to protect your personal privacy and freedoms. Obviously the smart people realize that trampling on our bill of rights and habeus corpus is the natural right of our government. Good point billweh.
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|Wasn't that new security agency started by republicans? Why do breaches and stolen equipment keep happening if they are in charge? Sounds like the incompetance you speak of is within your own party. :/
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